President Muhammadu Buhari has been petitioned before the United Nations (UN), over his alleged interference in the case of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
He was petitioned by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the rule of law, Intersociety. The group asked President Buhari to end what it described as his clear meddlesomeness in the case of Kanu and the Judiciary.
It also demanded that the President should order the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to either ascertain the Federal Government’s claim that Kanu committed treasonable felony or withdraw the false charges levelled against him for want of evidence.
Intersociety, in the open letter to UN, demanded that President Buhari should stop inferring in the ongoing Kanu’s court case in order to allow for an unbiased judgement for the accused and his accusers. It contended that constitutionalism should be firmly adhered to in the case, both in the need for the proceedings or future trial to be carried out in the open court in compliance with Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended in 2011, as well as the ICCPR and the ACHPR Treaty Laws.
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